Word: shastri
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...Washington of Roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, who had traveled 30,000 miles, visited twelve countries. Harriman was the farthest flying of all the emissaries Johnson sent out. With him when he returned was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who had flown to India for Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's funeral and then visited Saigon for talks with South Vietnamese and U.S. leaders. Neither official could disguise his disillusion...
...Minister Morarji Desai. "Will you bless my success?" she asked. "I give you my blessing," he replied. Then Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, took her seat and waited for the parliamentary members of the ruling Congress Party to elect a Prime Minister to replace Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died in Tashkent two weeks...
...Indira Gandhi and 169 for her only rival, Morarji Desai. Indira walked quickly to the podium, spoke briefly. "As I stand before you," she said in Hindi, "my thoughts go back to the great leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, at whose feet I grew up, Panditji, my father, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. These leaders have shown the way, and I want to go along the same path...
...guiding the world's second most populous nation. From around the world came congratulatory cables?some 10,000 in all. Pope Paul VI sent his blessing, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin expressed "the Soviet people's deep satisfaction," and Lyndon Johnson sent a warm invitation to keep the date that Shastri had made for a Washington visit?around Feb. 1. Those who wished India well could only rejoice at the smooth transition of power. Though India is a nation of 480 million people speaking 14 major languages, and plagued by deep religious antipathies, it had proved for the second time...
...independence. In northern India there is the threat of renewed invasion by the Red Chinese, who have already seized 14,500 sq. mi. of Indian territory. To the east and west lies the dilemma that is Pakistan, and the question of how to proceed with the truce agreement that Shastri negotiated with President Ayub Khan at Tashkent. At home, India is plagued by famine, rising unemployment, and just about every other woe that an overpopulated, poverty-stricken land is heir...